We all have that person. The one we think about at 2 AM. The one whose name still makes our stomach flip years later. The one who got away.
But what if they did not get away? What if they left on purpose? And what if that was the best thing that ever happened to you?
“Once Wasn’t Enough” is Tom Bruggemann’s exploration of a love that was real but was never going to work.
“I kept going back,” Tom admits. “Again and again. And every time it ended the same way. At some point I had to ask myself: am I in love with this person, or am I in love with the idea of making this work?”
The song is painfully honest about the difference between loving someone and being addicted to them. About the way we romanticize dysfunction and call it passion. About how sometimes the person we cannot let go of is the person we most need to release.
Have you ever kept going back to someone you knew was wrong for you? Not because you were stupid, but because the pull was just that strong?
Tom has. This song is what it sounds like when you finally admit that once was enough. That twice was a mistake. And that three times would have been the end of you.